Here are the questions and answers from the special edition of “Tenable” broadcast earlier today (Wednesday 1 September 2021), a Soccer Aid special featuring the London City Lionesses. [Episode listed as S5Ep47.]

The format here is the same as other pieces about “Tenable” on this Blog: a list of the challenges, a note on how the team fared, and then the answers.

The Questions

Wednesday 1 September 2021 [Listed as S5Ep47]

Round 1: 10 players in Soccer Aid football matches [The ‘Tenable’ Tower will show 10 descriptions of people who have all played in a Soccer Aid match, please give the names of the 10 corresponding football players.]

The clues: ‘The Chase’ presenter / Men’s Arsenal keeper (born 1963) / TV chef, host of ‘The F Word’ / 116 goals for Scotland’s women’s team / Set England women’s 46 goal record / Title actor of Austin Powers films / Became coach on ‘The Voice’, 2018 / England women’s manager at 2019 World Cup / Take That Soccer Aid co-founder / Set 9.58 seconds 100m record

Round 2: The 10 least populated US States [According to the US Census Bureau’s estimated figures for resident populations for 2019.]

Round 3: The 10 four-letter words made from the word ‘dribble’ [The four-letter words are all in Chambers 21st century dictionary on chambers.co.uk; they have their own entry; does not include hyphenated words, words with apostrophes, acronyms or any word that the dictionary spells with an initial capital letter; one of these words is an abbreviation of a longer word; as of 16 January 2021.]

Round 4: The last 10 managers of England at the finals of a Men’s World Cup or Euro tournament [As of January 2021.]

Round 5 (The Captain’s Round): 10 landmarks or tourist sites from around the world [“The ‘Tenable’ tower will show the names of 10 major landmarks or tourist sites from somewhere around the world; we’re looking for the 10 cities that correspond to each of them; each landmark on the ‘Tenable’ tower has its own entry in Encyclopaedia Britannica.”]

The clues: Taj Mahal / Sagrada Familia / Forbidden City / Table Mountain / Burj Khalifa skyscraper / Red Square / Empire State Building / Eiffel Tower / Christ the Redeemer Statue / Colosseum

Final Round: Motor Vehicles: Top 10 best-selling car manufacturers of 2020 [Based on the number of car registrations by brand at the year end for 2020 and is according to data from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. ]

How the team fared

Wednesday 1 September 2021, The London City Lionesses

4 members of The London City Lionesses made it to the Final Round and won 12.5k by naming all of the Top 10 best-selling car manufacturers of 2020.

Questions and Answers

Wednesday 1 September 2021 [Listed as S5Ep47]

Round 1: 10 players in Soccer Aid football matches [The ‘Tenable’ Tower will show 10 descriptions of people who have all played in a Soccer Aid match, please give the names of the 10 corresponding football players]

The clues: ‘The Chase’ presenter / Men’s Arsenal keeper (born 1963) / TV chef, host of ‘The F Word’ / 116 goals for Scotland’s women’s team / Set England women’s 46 goal record / Title actor of Austin Powers films / Became coach on ‘The Voice’, 2018 / England women’s manager at 2019 World Cup / Take That Soccer Aid co-founder / Set 9.58 seconds 100m record

The answers: Bradley Walsh / David Seaman / Gordon Ramsay / Julie Fleeting / Kelly Smith / Mike Myers / Olly Murs / Phil Neville / Robbie Williams / Usain Bolt

Round 2: The 10 least populated US States [According to the US Census Bureau’s estimated figures for resident populations for 2019.]

Wyoming / Vermont / Alaska / North Dakota / South Dakota / Delaware / Rhode Island / Montana / Maine / New Hampshire

Round 3: The 10 four-letter words made from the word ‘dribble’ [The four-letter words are all in Chambers 21st century dictionary on chambers.co.uk; they have their own entry; does not include hyphenated words, words with apostrophes, acronyms or any word that the dictionary spells with an initial capital letter; one of these words is an abbreviation of a longer word; as of 16 January 2021.]

Bide / Bier / Bile / Bird / Deli / Dire / Idle / Lied / Ride / Rile

Once again we have the oddity of common English words that do not have their own entry in the dictionary – “Bled” and “Bred” were not in this list, and “Lied” (pronounced “leed”) was here as a “German song for solo voice, popular during the Romantic period”. and not as the past tense of “Lie”.

Round 4: The last 10 managers of England at the finals of a Men’s World Cup or Euro tournament [As of January 2021.]

Gareth Southgate / Roy Hodgson / Fabio Capello / Sven-Goran Eriksson / Kevin Keegan / Glenn Hoddle / Terry Venables / Graham Taylor / Bobby Robson / Ron Greenwood

Round 5 (The Captain’s Round): 10 landmarks or tourist sites from around the world [“The ‘Tenable’ tower will show the names of 10 major landmarks or tourist sites from somewhere around the world; we’re looking for the 10 cities that correspond to each of them; each landmark on the ‘Tenable’ tower has its own entry in Encyclopaedia Britannica.”]

The clues: Taj Mahal / Sagrada Familia / Forbidden City / Table Mountain / Burj Khalifa skyscraper / Red Square / Empire State Building / Eiffel Tower / Christ the Redeemer Statue / Colosseum

The cities: Agra / Barcelona / Beijing / Cape Town / Dubai / Moscow / New York / Paris / Rio de Janeiro / Rome

Final Round: Motor Vehicles: Top 10 best-selling car manufacturers of 2020 [Based on the number of car registrations by brand at the year end for 2020 and is according to data from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. ]

Audi / BMW / Ford / Kia / Mercedes-Benz / Nissan / Skoda / Toyota / Vauxhall / Volkswagen

For the record …

The Final Round question here is an updated version of the Final Round question from the very first episode of “Tenable”(S1Ep1), namely:

Final Round: Cars: The 10 best-selling car brands by new cars registered [Based on the number of new UK registrations in 2015, according to figures published by the SMMT.]  

Ford / Vauxhall / Volkswagen / BMW / Audi / Nissan / Mercedes-Benz / Peugeot / Toyota / Hyundai 

Peugeot and Hyundai have dropped out of the list since 2015 and been replaced by Kia and Skoda. The other 8 answers are the same, but in a very different order.